Content only in non-default language loads wrong template?

The CMS Questions
1

I have a site that uses multiple languages (english is the default) and if I have content that’s only available in german the site seems to always load the default.php template. So for example:

‘24082016-postname’ folder has a file called grid.de.txt. Instead of loading grid.php it loads default.php. However if I add a blank grid.en.txt file inside of this folder the german page loads the correct template.

Is there any way around this or do I have add these blank default language files to each page?

2

I think the default language file must be present. If you would use the panel, the default language file would always be created automatically.

Edit: https://getkirby.com/docs/languages/content

3

Ah I see. Do you think it would be possible to write some kind of check that in case of a “blank file” the visitor wouldn’t be able to see that page (maybe redirect them for example)?

4

This could work, not tested, though:

if(empty($page->content($site->language()->code())->toArray())) {
  go('error');
} else {
// your template code
}
5

Thanks, I’ll try it a bit later. This would be template specific though, right? Do you know if it would be possible to make such rule sitewide?

6

Right, that would be template specific. You could put the code in the header to include it in every template. Not sure if there is a better way to achieve this.